When Governor Cuomo announced that the NY Department of Motor Vehicles would have a special Super Bowl XLVI Champions license plate for order, that surprised some NY state lawmakers, because they've been trying to get a license plate to commemorate 9/11 first responders and victims. Republican Assemblyman James Tedisco said, "I'm happy that the Giants won the Super Bowl as much as the next New Yorker, but who are the real heroes our state should first be celebrating with distinctive plates, the athletes on the gridiron or the first responders and the people who lost their lives on Sept. 11?" more ›

Connecticut police arrested a 38-year-old woman for risk of injury to a minor for leaving her five-year-old son in a casino hotel room so she could gamble. And police found out what happened because her son called 911. more ›

Newt Gingrich makes a mistake during one of his 2003 speeches, but these days, his foreign policy is more dangerous than a little slip-up. more ›

Last January investigative journalist Tom Robbins broke the story of how the NYPD endorsed the scaremongering Islamophobic documentary The Third Jihad. The film was funded by the pro-Israel non-profit group The Clarion Fund, and it contends that few, if any, Muslims can be trusted. "Americans are being told that most of the mainstream Muslim groups are moderate," says the narrator, "when in fact if you look a little closer you'll see a very different reality. One of their primary tactics is deception." Newly released documents show the NYPD knows a thing or two about deception as well! more ›

Earlier this week Mark Wahlberg's interview with Men's Journal revealed that the actor fancies himself a real life action hero. He told the magazine that he was scheduled to be on one of the planes that flew into the Twin Towers on September 11th, adding: "If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn't have went down like it did. There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying,'OK, we’re going to land somewhere safely, don't worry.'" The only thing that could have made this worse is if he were actually developing a movie where his character single-handedly stopped 9/11 from happening (maybe he is?). Anyway, he has since apologized, but the relatives of the victims killed on 9/11 want him to show up to the memorial in person. more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] Not to be outdone by Gwyneth Paltrow, who only saved one woman's life on 9/11, actor Mark Wahlberg has now told Men's Journal that he could have stopped 9/11 from ever happening! Actor Mark Wahlberg needs to stop reading so many movie scripts! more ›

On December 22, 39-year-old Tennesseean Meredith Graves brought her loaded .38 pistol in her purse to the 9/11 Memorial and, after she asked a guard if there was a place she could check it, was promptly arrested. She posted bail on Wednesday and yesterday at least one local pol started pushing for lenience (she faces a minimum sentence of 3 1/2 years on a single felony weapons-possession charge) since her gun was properly registered in her home state. Also, police say that besides the gun Graves, a fourth-year medical student, had "two envelopes of what they suspected to be cocaine" in her purse. more ›

Yesterday it was reported that a gang of football fans beat up a Jets fan after last Sunday's game at MetLife Stadium—the fight started after one of the assailants allegedly taunted, “You all deserved what happened on 9/11!” Police have arrested Merle Lee, 35, of Newton, NJ, and charged him with third-degree aggravated assault for attacking 23-year-old Queens resident James Mohr; they also insist that only Lee was involved in the attack. The Post reveals that Lee has a long rap sheet, including three years in a NJ prison on a drug-dealing charge, and convictions for drug-possession, theft, DWI and other offenses. more ›

Alec Baldwin may have tried to apologize to his fellow American Airlines passengers delayed by his Tuesday tantrum, but now he's offended a 9/11 widow. Cheryl McGuinness Hutchins, whose husband Tom McGuinness was a pilot aboard AA 11, which hit the World Trade Center, told TMZ that Baldwin's reference to 9/11 was "inappropriate." more ›

Last year, ground was broken on the George W. Bush Presidential Library, located at the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Now, it's revealed that a piece of steel from the World Trade Center will be featured prominently. more ›

Mayor of 9/11 Town Rudy Giuliani broke his legendary silence on Occupy Wall Street this week at the Defending the American Dream Summit. And he struck just the right Giuliani-esque tone: a mixture of condescension toward the protesters ("How about you occupy a job.") and damnation of President Obama, who he claims is responsible for the whole movement. Watch below: more ›

After the developer of the controversial Park51 Islamic community center admitted to making mistakes, and the building peacefully opened its doors for a photo exhibit last month, it appeared that the worst had passed for the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque." Now, Con Ed is threatening to evict Park51 from one of the structures its leasing from the utility if they don't pay $1.7 million in back rent they say the group owed on October 4. more ›

Yesterday, a panel of doctors who are charged with reviewing preventative medicine ruled that a blood screening for prostate cancer, the second deadliest cancer, is unnecessary. This is mostly because people don't like to be told they have cancer, especially with the treatment and biopsies that occur after a positive result: 5,000 men died after surgery, and up to 70,000 had "serious consequences" after the biopsy, in addition to the 300,000 who experienced impotence or incontinence from 1985 to 2005. The doctor who developed the test has called it a "public health disaster." But Rudy Giuliani tells the Post that the test saved his life: "I believe it's the reason I'm alive. It's really a mistake to move away from this. It's very dangerous." Well, that settles it! more ›

Lower Manhattan is getting messy. Beyond the people who live and work there, and ignoring all those occupiers, 9/11 tourists are apparently overloading the areas bathroom and garbage can supply. And don't expect a fix coming anytime soon! We've known since May that there wouldn't be any bathrooms at the 9/11 Memorial until its sibling Museum opens next year, but it seems that no matter how much neighbors beg for them, there won't even be any Porta-Potties for the visitors in the meantime. Why? Because of the terrorists, of course. more ›

"The NYPD has been spying on entire neighborhoods based solely on who lives there and what their religious beliefs are,” Udi Ofer of the NYCLU said yesterday, just as NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly was grilled by City Council members during an "often adversarial" hearing. "We know the NYPD is watching us: the question is, who is watching the NYPD?" That's a good question! The City Council does not have the power to subpoena the NYPD for its intelligence records, and the Federal government—which has invested more than $1.6 billion in the NYPD since 9/11—has no authority to monitor its intelligence operations, either. Don't worry, it's the honor system! more ›

Shouldn't New York's Emergency dispatch system be well protected from the computer problems that plague the rest of us? The city has spent a lot of time and money on its ongoing Emergency Communications Transformation Program (which NASA was recently called in to help with). And yet still, the FDNY's computers decided to go offline not once but twice this weekend. Luckily a rep for FDNY tells us that "No Operational, Response, or Patient issues reported," and that "response times remained at normal levels." more ›

At this point, just about every credible world organization has either discredited or disavowed Iranian clown-of-the-century Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his wacky conspiracies theories on 9/11. And now, the terror organization who was responsible for the September 11 attacks has had it with Ahmadinejad passing the blame to everyone but them: "Al Qaeda...succeeded in what Iran couldn't. Therefore it was necessary for the Iranians to discredit 9/11 and what better way to do so? Conspiracy theories," claimed an author in the latest issue of the al Qaeda English-language magazine "Inspire." more ›

This morning on his radio show, Mayor Bloomberg revealed that he welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife to the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum last night, "[Netanyahu] just said, 'This is unbelievable, this is so moving.'" more ›

A seven-year-old Brooklyn boy had the foresight to call 911 earlier today when his mother started convulsing with seizures. Drew, a third grader at P.S. 13, jumped into action just after 8 a.m. in his Hendrix Street home this morning when his mother began shaking on the floor. more ›

Does the man who once sat on Cloud 7 believe there's something to Building 7? On Howard Stern's radio show last night, Tony Bennett questioned who was really to blame for the September 11th attacks that killed 2,996 Americans. "They flew the plane in, but we caused it," Bennett said. "But who are the terrorists? Are we the terrorists or are they the terrorists?" Bennett was alluding to the imposing presence of the United States in the Middle East prior to the attacks, but the damage had already been done. Look for his new single, "Who Can I Turn To (When People Find My Views On 9/11 In Poor Taste)," this fall. more ›

Pamela Geller's SHARIA Hotline is burning up right now: the organizers of Park 51 AKA "The Ground Zero Victory Mosque" are opening a photo exhibition by artist Danny Goldfield in the former Burlington Coat Factory on Wednesday. What kind of photos? Muslims celebrating 9/11? Puppies getting beaten with Korans? Bald eagles being tortured by crescent moons? From Park 51's Kickstarter: "Danny is photographing a child from every country on earth currently living in New York City." more ›